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Posted: 2022-02-12T19:05:26Z | Updated: 2022-02-12T19:05:26Z

A Texas aquarium is being sued for the second time in less than a year over a giant otter attacking a child.

Samantha Jorgensen of Fort Worth filed the suit, published in full by NBC DFW , against the Dallas World Aquarium on behalf of her young daughter this week. Jorgensen alleges that when her family visited the aquarium in September 2019, a giant otter reached over a glass barrier and bit her then-2-year-old daughters hand. The plexiglass barrier around the enclosure was about 5 and a half feet tall, but the toddler was sitting on the shoulders of her father, who is 6 feet, 3 inches.

To clarify, a giant otter doesnt just mean a really big otter. Giant otters are their own species , native to South America. They live in freshwater, mostly eat fish and males can grow up to 6 feet long. Heres a photo of one in the wild: